Makeup

Are you perhaps not naturally blessed with full, luscious lips? There is a simple way to correct this, one that doesn’t include injections or any other kind of medical procedure. All you need to do is invest in a good lipliner and you will be able to alter the appearance of your lips in a…

Lip liner, when done correctly, is the consummate companion to lipstick, yet it hasn’t always received the acknowledgment it deserves. This could mostly be due to that short-lived but sadly memorable brown-lined lips with nude lipstick trend that took hold of lips for a season. Lip liner done right can totally change up your lip…

This tends to be a rather common thread running among those of us who wear makeup. While there are gazillions of types, brands, effects and prices of cosmetics available for an endless range of makeup applications today-oh, and with only a few exceptions, most of us can be at a cosmetics store or aisle within…

In speaking of lines, the ones that are painted above, beneath and around women’s eyes as cosmetics can be some of the most effective ways to add dramatic beautifying effects to all eye shapes and colors. The “line” between perfect application and circus-worthiness can be blurred, but when crossed, you’ll have moved from runway-best to…

A smokey eye is my favorite thing to do when it comes to makeup. However, it’s not always appropriate for every occasion, so I generally reserve this look for a fun night on the town. That’s changing for Fall 2015 though, as smokey eyes are the number one makeup trend for this season! Smokey eyes…

When makeup is applied properly, using the perfect degree of contouring, it makes the face naturally appear to have the ideal shape. Done right, contouring magically transforms out of balance areas of the face and improves all face shapes. The proper method of contouring will change your look significantly. By use of skillful application techniques…

Most women, when they find a makeup that they really like, tend to keep it, and continue using it until it is used up entirely. Generally, it seems like if you buy makeup new, and keep it stored in a relatively clean place that is not subjected to too much heat or cold, that it…

It’s a whole new world out there and while sun tanning used to be the best way to get a deep dark tan, the days of cooking yourself in baby oil are long gone! People are becoming more and more aware of the health risks that the sun has on the body. Cancer is on…

The smoky eye look has been on the rise for some time now, and there is no other form of eye makeup that produces such a sexy, compelling look, yet while at the same time, looking sophisticated. Is sophistisexy a word? It ought to be, with all the cool techniques that makeup artists have perfected…

If you were to isolate the one form of makeup that women just could not do without, and eliminate all the others, surely it would be lipstick. While in the days before the twist-up tube lipstick tube came into being (in 1923–thanks to an American inventor,) lipsticks were not nearly like the formulations we now…